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Book Notes  Chess Informant 106 contains 297 annotated games and 484 variations. It covers events held between May 1, 2009 and August 31, 2009, inlcuding Sofia, Leko - Anand (m), Poikovsky, Dortmund, San Sebastian, Biel, etc. Contributors include Anand, Kramnik, Leko, Kasimdzhanov, Beliavsky, Christiansen, Benjamin, Yusupov, Timman, Speelman, and many others. Trademark sections: The voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 105, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Rustam Kasimdzhanov's creative output. Column "Modern Chess Theory" completely covers three most popular openings C 42, E 04 and E 97. Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 celebrates fifty years of the famous Italian tournament. All the games are analysed, many of them by the players themselves: those sharing their wisdom include award-winning author Mihail Marin, rising star Ni Hua, tournament winner Zoltan Almasi and the legendary Viktor Korchnoi. In addition, photographs and entertaining stories take the reader behind the scenes at a top-class tournament.
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Reviews in Brief |  Mega Database 2010
by ChessBase In chess, as with many other activities, it is the side with the best information that often comes out on top. Thus, chess players seek to have the latest, greatest information at their fingertips. One means of accessing high quality information is Mega Database 2010, with ChessBase 10 a key tool in sorting and utilizing this information. The database contains more than 4.5 million games from 1560 to 2009, with 65,000 games containing commentary from top players. The most recent games are from the middle of November 2009, but with ChessBase 10 you can download games for Mega 2010 for the whole year, providing a supplement of approximately 200,000 up-to-date games! This keeps Mega 2010 current until December 2010. The games of the database are sorted into the ChessBase "SuperKey." This is based on the Informant ECO classification and contains 106,707 individual categories of opening lines. However, it has always been a mystery to me as to why the New In Chess openings key has not been adopted as the worldwide standard, as it is a far superior system. The Mega Database 2010 allows different forms of access via the use of tabs. When you first open the database, the tab "Text "is activated. Click on "Games" and you get the full list of 4,463,293 games and texts. For those who are interested in just the bare gamescores sans annotations, the Big Database 2010 is available for less than half the price of Mega 2010. However, the difference between the two is like having a dictionary with definitions as opposed to just a list of words. Read the full review here. | | |
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1/12 Foxy Openings Vol. 97: The Queen's Gambit Accepted Easily Explained (DVD)
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1/10 Roman's Lab: Vol. 89, Games against the Maroczy Bind (DVD)
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1/7 Theory and Practice of Chess Endings, Vol. 1
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1/3 Complete Chess Course (CD)
1/2 Rybka Aquarium 2010 (with CA10) (DVD)
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12/31 Elementary Checkmates I (CD)
12/31 Elementary Checkmates II (CD)
12/30 CT Art 4.0 (CD)
12/29 Foxy Openings Vol. 94: Modern Repertoire for White Using the Scotch (DVD)
12/28 Trompowsky: The Easy Way, 2nd ed. (DVD)
12/27 Winning Structures (DVD)
12/26 Pocket Fritz 4
12/25 Fritz Powerbook 2010 (DVD)
12/24 DGT North American Chess Clock
12/23 Revolutionize Your Chess
12/22 1.e4 Repertoire: Grandmaster Lines Explained for Club Players (DVD)
12/22 Accelerated Dragon (DVD - restock)
12/21 Roman's Lab: Vol. 87, Games for the Scotch Player (DVD)
12/21 Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play (restock)
12/20 Foxy Openings Vol. 93: The Modern Stonewall Dutch (DVD)
12/19 Roman's Lab: Vol. 86, Games for the Grand Prix Player (DVD)
12/19 Attack with Mikhail Tal (restock)
12/19 Art of Attack in Chess (restock)
12/18 Foxy Openings Vol. 92: The English Opening 1 c4 for the Average Player (DVD)
12/17 Roman's Lab: Vol. 85, Understanding the Concept of the Middlegame Based on Opening Strategy (DVD)
12/16 Summerville Chessboards
12/14 ChessBase Magazine 133 (DVD)
Puzzle Answer: 29...Rxa5! 30.Na8 Rxd1+ 31.Rxd1 Qd7!! 0-1 Chernobay-Papin, Dagomys 2009 (Source: Chess Informant #106)
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